ESCO v1.2 | ESCO

Hierarchy view

Introduction to ESCO
Structure and features of the ESCO classification
ESCO development
- ESCO governance
- ESCO versions
ESCO glossary
How can ESCO be used in practice?
- ESCO in job search and job matching
- ESCO connects the labour market with education & training
  - Linking learning outcomes of qualifications with ESCO skills
  - Searching for learning opportunities
- ESCO for Labour Market Analysis
  - ESCO for labour market intelligence
  - ESCO in statistics
- Implementing ESCO into systems
  - Extending ESCO
  - Gap analysis
Crosswalks and related frameworks/classifications

ESCOpedia

Comma-separated values (CSV)

Competence-based job matching

Continuous improvement process

Development of ESCO

DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion

Digital Skills labelling in ESCO

ESCO data formats

ESCO for labour market intelligence

ESCO governance

ESCO in statistics

ESCO Maintenance Committee

ESCO mapping platform

ESCO Member States Working Group

ESCO occupations mapping pilot

ESCO skills mapping pilot

European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop)

European Digital Competence Framework for Citizens (DigComp)

European e-Competence Framework (e-CF)

European Qualifications Framework (EQF)

Functional analysis

Green skills labelling in ESCO

How can ESCO be used in practice?

International Standard Classification of Education: Fields of Education and Training 2013 (ISCED-F)

International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO)

International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO)

International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO)

Linked Open Data

Linking learning outcomes of qualifications with ESCO skills

List of sectors of economic activities for the development of ESCO v1

Mapping to ESCO

Non-preferred term

Occupations pillar

OpenDocument Spreadsheet (ODS)

Piloting and testing

Qualifications and ESCO

Qualifications dataset register (QDR)

Qualifications Metadata Schema

Reference Groups

Regulated professions

Searching for learning opportunities

Simple Knowledge Organisation System (SKOS)

Skill contextualisation

Skill reusability level

Skills-Occupations Matrix Tables

Terminological guidelines

Training sessions: EURES and ESCO

Transversal knowledge, skills and competences

Two pillar structure of ESCO

Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)

What is ESCO and how to use it?

ESCO v1.2

In May 2024 the Commission released the new major version of ESCO, based on a data-driven approach which combines human expertise and AI techniques for content creation and quality improvement. This includes leveraging AI to extract information on occupation and skills terms used in online job advertisements, courses and qualifications, national and international classifications of skills and occupations, sectoral publications and analyse them by using customized AI models to identify links with existing ESCO terms.

What has changed?

35 occupations, 42 new skills and 196 new knowledge concepts have been added to the classification;
677 alternative labels are added to new or previous ESCO concepts, together with 96 hidden terms;
18 quality improvements tasks were performed. Over 12000 concepts have been updated. Improvements range from removing duplicate terms, correction of orphan skills, reallocation of skills and knowledges in the skills hierarchy;
Improvements on existing translations in 28 languages and inclusion of national sign languages.

ESCO v1.2 was officially presented in an online webinar on 21 May 2024.

Supporting documentation

The occupations, skills and competences in the updated classification are available in the ESCO portal, in the Download Section, and via API.